BREAKING: British-Run, CIA-Penetrated WADA Bans Russia From Major Sports Events for 4 Years No Olympics, FIFA World Cup, or Hockey World Championship RT 10 Dec 19 1004 4
Our Benevolent Empire In a Society Built on War, We Must Do More Than Just Prefer Peace "War is the worst thing in the world. The politics of anyone who claims to care about people should reflect this" Caitlin Johnstone 9 Dec 19 402 1
S-400 to Seoul? How South Korea Indirectly Acquires Cutting Edge Russian Air Defences Prevented by the US from buying Russian outright Seoul instead enlists Russian help in developing nominally domestic anti-aircraft Military Watch 9 Dec 19 1276 6
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Saudi Officer in US for Flight Training Shoots Up Florida Airbase This will be presented as something only preventable by killing even more people in the Middle East (preferably Iranians) Kyle Anzalone 9 Dec 19 169 1
Voice of America Outs US Military Families as Putin’s Unwitting Agents Putin got to them! Marko Marjanović 9 Dec 19 690 14
Bolsonaro Placed a Losing Bet on Trump, China Looking the Better Partner Tariffs on Brazilian steel are just the latest wake up call which Bolsonaro is increasingly heading Oliver Stuenkel 9 Dec 19 697 0
Those Pesky Chinese China Just Opened the Suez Canal of Our Era and No One Blinked The Belt and Road comes to Turkey in a big way, but the West is too distracted to notice or care Geoffrey Aronson 9 Dec 19 3074 11
US Army Now Just Chasing Single Remaining ISIS Fighter Around Ruins of Syrian Village Any excuse to stay The Onion 9 Dec 19 1105 5
Our Benevolent Empire The Pentagon Is Trying to Blame Shot Down of Its Drone Over Libya on Russia The Russian mercenary boogeyman strikes just in time for AFRICOM's efforts at relevancy Phil Stewart 8 Dec 19 1039 2
Empire Woes How the Federal Reserve Denuded America of Its Industrial Base and Crippled It Militarily America's defense industrial base is gone Matt Stoller 8 Dec 19 1835 4
From the Archive Western Allies Killed More Innocents in 1941-1945 Than Butcher Stalin Did 4 million to Stalin's 2 million. The only reason we think of them as moral is because the Nazis were even far worse Marko Marjanović 8 Dec 19 1982 5
From the Archive How US Made Russia the World Leader in Air Defense Facing an adversary with a vast air fleet and an inclination to level cities Soviets had no choice but pour enormous energies into countermeasures Marko Marjanović 8 Dec 19 13458 12
From the Archive FACT: There Was No South China Sea Crisis Before the US Navy Created One Current tensions date to 2012 when America invented so-called "freedom of navigation" operations Ken Moak 8 Dec 19 1634 6
Massive Leak Confirms Turkey’s Gold-for-Gas Scheme to Evade US Sanctions on Iran Not only is gold money, it's US sanctions-proof money Tyler Durden 8 Dec 19 1189 8
Pro Tip: Mentally Replace All Uses of “Conspiracy Theorist” With “Iraq Rememberer” Caitlin Johnstone 7 Dec 19 896 13
S-400 Exceeded Expectations in Turkey’s Military Tests The Turks are also now satisfied the system is not sending anything back to Russia Mihail Khodarenok 7 Dec 19 2488 5
Russian Aggression Russia Weaponizes Arms Control Treaties Putin says willing to extend New START nuke control treaty immediately, without discussions which Trump has been sabotaging Marko Marjanović 7 Dec 19 538 2
Our Benevolent Empire US & NATO Failed to Get Europeans to Fall Behind a Hard Line Against China at London Summit What Washington got was a hodgepodge where Beijing is named as a "challenge" but not one that necessarily warrants confrontation German Foreign Policy 7 Dec 19 1026 3
Empire's Headchoppers How Foreign Investors Dashed MBS’ Hope for a $2 Trillion Saudi Aramco Valuation So much so that IPO will now rely primarily on domestic buyers encouraged by a relentless ad campaign, cheap loans, and state pressure Kate Kelly 7 Dec 19 751 1
China Escalation Assures America’s Unmitigated March in the Direction of Stupidity Will Continue What began as a unique quirk of Donald Trump has morphed into a bipartisan consensus — and freedoms at home will ultimately pay the price Michael Krieger 6 Dec 19 1489 11
Those Pesky Russians Global Warming Will Be Marvelous for Russia Will help open up its northern sea route, boost its agriculture, and help uncover more minerals and oil for extraction Jonathan Jacobson 6 Dec 19 1028 24
Had Putin Led Russia in 1999, NATO Would Never Have Bombed Us — Serbian President "God – high above, Russia – far away", Serbian saying TASS 6 Dec 19 947 1
Our Benevolent Empire British MoD Document Reveals Chain of Custody Over Skripal Blood Samples Missing. ‘Evidence’ of Russian Novichok Attack Worthless "The samples analyzed by Porton Down aren’t provably from the Skripals at all" John Helmer 6 Dec 19 1139 8
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: We Tortured Some Folks Movie review: 'The Report' Kyle Anzalone 6 Dec 19 101 0
Bolivia Coup Playing on Fears of Societal Collapse Bolivia Putschists Pacify the Country "Paradoxically, the pro-Morales poor and working classes are also those most susceptible to economic consequences of a countrywide disruption" Wyatt Reed 6 Dec 19 341 0
NATO Squabbles America and Its French Satrapy Get Themselves Into a Mini Trade War Punitive tarrifs on $2.4bn in French cheeses, etc over Paris' taxation of Google and Facebook Leonid Bershidsky 6 Dec 19 542 3
Those Pesky Chinese Chinese Students Are 4 Grade Levels Ahead of US Students in Math Michael Snyder 5 Dec 19 3844 18
Adventures in Trumpia The Biggest Break Down in US Civil-Military Relations Since Vietnam Caused by Trump’s Basest, Vilest Instincts US Navy stood up to Trump because it recognizes it has a real problem with out-of-control special forces Mark Perry 5 Dec 19 1218 5
Those Pesky Russians Russia Switches On a Gargantuan Over-the-Horizon Radar to Spot Assailants From the West Plans to build another such gigantic radar array with a 3,000 km range (!) facing the Arctic north Joseph Trevithick 5 Dec 19 2229 1
NATO Squabbles Trump Blasts “Two-Faced” Trudeau to Put Cherry on Top of Farcical NATO Summit Now here is one summit which truly delivered David Martosko 5 Dec 19 559 8